Out of place among my careful hardware collection you’ll find a small drawer of rocks. There’s a piece of shattered shale I picked from the base of Niagara Falls when our class hosted those kids from Alberta, two chips off Mount Royal from my week in Montréal with Joanne, four pieces of the crumbling concrete Louise brought back from the fall of the Berlin Wall, and a small piece of brick I picked from the street the day after they bombed the Morgentaler Clinic.
Out of place, you’ll find all this rubble, so you might as well throw it away.
Photo ©2011 by Jim Malcolm.
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4 months ago
Rewritten for Magpie Tales 103.
ReplyDeleteI collect bits of stone and bone as well...meaningless to everyone else...
ReplyDeleteVery clever, Steve.
ReplyDeleteA unique response. Not out of place at all. :o)
ReplyDeletewithout the memories to go with each, they will not see it as much treasures as you ...surely
ReplyDeleteI love my found treasures. I even have a special box to house them.
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I have a vase of rocks on my desk. One is a bit of brick left from the rubble of the factory where my great grandfather worked in Scotland. Rocks have their own special energy and spirit and so does your poem. Thank you for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteI have a poem that is similar to this...Thank you for this
ReplyDeleteThis is my mag post http://wanderwithoutbeinglost.blogspot.com/2012/02/grave-so-fine.html
Buckets 7/22/11 9:46 pm
Sitting forlorn in the end of a nonfunctional driveway
Rocks all types from value to scrap
Stones all alone but for the bucket next
Treasure mine eye sees only gems
Wonder under the chaff and slag
Many see naught but scrap
Buckets full of dross left to me, given
Horded, held in trust
Gems I see, scraps and slag and gravel
For you are all they could be.
The buckets speak to me for you garbage is all you can see
They come with love from my heroes
Gifted to me
Christopher M McQueeney 2011
Wander
An original view of the prompt. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI liked this....you rocked it to us!
ReplyDeleteA clever write - our little treasure are meaningless to other - and that's why they're ours!
ReplyDeleteAnna :o]
Interesting variation on this week's Mag theme.
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